From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28624 invoked by uid 1002); 11 Jun 2003 16:03:48 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 13911 invoked from network); 11 Jun 2003 16:03:48 -0000 Message-ID: <32870.10.0.0.1.1055351175.squirrel@mooktaking.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <20030611061056.B1052@datanode.net> References: <3EE5EA76.7090805@komcept.com><34221.10.0.0.1.1055259612.squirrel@mook <20030611115214.4b3e2552.svyatogor@gentoo.org> <1109.10.0.0.1.1055327822.squirrel@mooktaking.homeip.net> <20030611061056.B1052@datanode.net> Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 18:06:15 +0100 (BST) From: "MooktaKiNG" To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-To: Mooktakim@hotmail.com User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Readme files for portage (was: A nice idea to improve portage) X-Archives-Salt: 8bc14586-fda2-413a-a83a-78df19217e7b X-Archives-Hash: b2a7561139f1a54220def23b6629c319 the URL is a great info to have. However some program have been modified to suite gentoo. and this is the reason why i think there should be a readme. I don't think it too much extra work. If you think about it. It's just a small portion of the time it takes to make the actual ebuild. I do appreciate what people do here, building ebuils and all. I haven't does this yet. Gonna try to make one in the future i hope. > On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 11:37:02AM +0100, MooktaKiNG wrote: >> Another good reason to have a README is becuase sometimes people >> want to know more about a program. Without having to install it. >> >> If they can learn about the program before they install. They are >> more aware of how hard/easy the installtion is. > > I thought that was one of the reasons the source URL shows up in a > search. It's how I've always checked to see what a package does. > README > files, imo, are great in theory but put additional maintenance > strain on > a dev. Just my two euros, > > Mike > > -- > gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list > > ------------------------------------------------- Please wait while you are redirected to my signature...... -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list